The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20

making employers liable for damages for
accidents to employees caused by the negli-
gence of fellow employe or defects in ma
chinery.
The other evening ct Fort Gibson, L T.,
two soldiers, James Adams and J. e.
Gladon, were seining for fish in the Grand
river, when they were caught in swift
current and were swept under.
THE Union seed drill works Of Selby,
Starr & Co, Peoria, Ill, burned the other
night Total loss, $1O0, OO0; insurance, $780,
600.
THE body of the famous Yuma Indian
chief, Pasquai, was cremated near Yuma,
Ariz., the otl.cr day.
The Supreme Council of the Catholic
Knights of America was in secret session
in Chicago on the 10th.
W. B. TODHUNTER, the cattle owner OF
Sacramento, Cal, who owns 10000 acres
of land in Oregon and $1,000 in Nevada, has
assigned to Hayes, Carrack Il Co., of Oak
land, Cal His liabilities are $4,000.
The condition of the Michigan wheat
crop is reported as excellent.
Two barb wire fence manufacturing
firms failed in Chicago on the 1Oth-Sher-
man Il Marsh, 81 Dearborn street, with
liabilities estimated at $44S. 600 and the as
sets at S256, 900, and Schnebel Il Co., next
door to Sherman & Marsh, making assign
ments to Noble b. Judah. The liabilities
of Schnebel & Co. are $3O3, 600 and the as
sets $lS3,0OO
AT Washington, Ind, recently James A.
Cunningham was given judgment against
the Evansville & Terre Haute Railway
Company for So, 900 for the burning of his
starch factory at vincennes by sparks from
locomotive.
THE strike Of the employees of the Calu-
met iron and steel mills, Chicago, has been
declared off.
WALTER VRooMAN, of Kansas City, Mo-,
socialist and editor of the Labor Organizer,
who was arrested in Allegheny City, Pa,
recently, was fined SIS for disorderly con-
duct
AT Chicago on the 18th the long, stubborn
fight against T. J. Vail, secretary of the
National Trottlng Association, was brought
to a close, Vail sending his resignation to
the president of the association.
The Missouri Legislature convened IN
special session at Jefferson City on the nth.
A LETTER from j. d. Garcia to a friend in
Tucson, Ariz., complains that he is held in
jail at Saharipa, Sonora, Mexico, be-
cause he refused to vote for the project re-
Gently.
The entire business part of Earlville, Ia,
town of 1000 inhabitants, thirty-seven
miles west Of Dubuque, was wiped out by
fire the other night. Twenty business
houses, four dwellings, one church and sew
eral barns were destroyed. Loss, $500
insurance, $53, 900.
The schooner Laura Madison, which ar
rived at Umpaqua, Ore, May 10, reports
IL IL:
eighty-five miles west of AragO, on fire and
abandoned. Nothing was known of the
crew.
The American sugar refinery at San
Francisco recently sent 100000 pounds of
sugar to New York over the Canadian Pa
cific.
employers, ten thousand men in the Chi
cago building trades were locked out on the
18th.
Ir is positively and officially denied that
the cashier of the Wills County National
Bank of Joliet, ILL.,, has been found in the
least short in his accounts.
CUSTOM officers seized lis cases marked
''Lut oil'' on the steamer Rio de Janeiro
which arrived at San Francisco recently
from China, and upon being opened they
cans of opium.
BY the capsizing of boat recently in the
bay at Milwaukee, Wis, August Strelow
and Ferdinand Rusch, young men, were
drowned. Herman Fischer, the third &C.
cupant of the boat, swan ashore.
THERE have been five earthquake shocks
at Nogales, A. T., lately. The heaviest was
at $50 on the morning of the l4th, and
caused many clocks in the town to stop.
A TORNADO swept over Gage County,
Neb., on the 18th, striking the town of Blue
Springs. All telegraph wires were down
and only meager reports were at hand.
Several houses were levcled and church
unroofed. One man at least was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
ALL the crew of the Ocean King, burned
and aban doned off Oregon coast, have ar
rived at Port Townsend, W. I.
A SPECIAL from Peoria, ILL.,, of the 18th
says: 1t is believed here that the whisky
pool will be reorganized at once. Distil-
lers are said to have big scheme on hand.
The Supreme Council of the Catholic
Knights of America concluded Its biennial
session at Chicago on the 18th. John b.
Coleman, of New Orleans, was elected SUI
preme president; c. F. O'Rourke, Fort
Wayne, vice-president; John Barr, Leba-
non, KY, secretary; N. j. O'Brien, Chat
tanooga, treasurer: j. j. Duffy, Memphis,
J. j. McEnery, Brooklyn, and ]. A.
Schwartz, trustees.
THE SOUTH.
The house of Levinad Robinson, near
Marshall, Tex, was broken into the other
night, during the absence of the family,
and Il, 600 in cash stolen.
Four persons were killed in the house OF
Andrew Peterson. near Stafford Court
House, Va, recently by lightning.
A LARGE number of distinguished Masons
went to Baltimore on the 18th to assist a.
the centennial of the Grand Lodge of Mary
land.
COLONEL F. P. HoRD and Captain George
Redmond, wealthy Texans, have been in
dicted by the United States grand jury at
San Antonio for smuggling on the Rio
Grande border.
KENTUCKY Republicans, in convention at
Louisville, nominated Hon. W. o. Bradley,
of Lancaster, for Governor: Mat O'Doher-
ty, of Louisville. for Observation-Disclosures;
John Felan, of Hopkins, for Attorney-Gen-
eral, and r. d. Davis, of Carter, for Aud
itor.
MEDINA County, Tex, officials want a
special session of the Legislature to grant
aid to the furnishing farmers.
The bay colt Montrose, the son Of Mont
rose, dam Patti, won the Kentucky Derby,
on the 18th. Time, 2:391S.
PETER TRIP and Alexander Caldwell